NOTE:
If you want KDE get it from PPM, it's large, and also needs *.csh files deleted from /etc/* to work almost properly (SFS soon)

THERE are some surprises

Known issues
*abiword rendering is garbage
*chromium based browsers may or may not work
*PPPOE is updated, needs a test
*inherited woof bugs, usb for one

Fixes
*some big xorg fixes including a full xorg.conf and synaptics support (tho you may not notice, and there is probably more to do)
*keyboard fr/azerty sk/qwertz
*xchat
*seamonkey
*add transmission lite
*start to implement small screen fixes, icons
*devx deps
*ppp
*attempt for pppoe
*gnumeric

Xorg has had a lot of work done to it, if you have issues please report.. I am expecting nvidia issues.

To do

*recompile heaps of stuff, bring stuff up to date, slackbuilds are good place to start. Major libraries should be kept inline with slackware versions. Slackware keep many sources with patches which may be handy.
*fix guis for small screens, they are horrible (status=started)
*decide what icon layout is best.. maybe someone can hack something together for small screens, they are way too cluttered with heaps of icons. (status=started)
*translate... no need to reinvent the wheel here, many of shinobar's wary quickset programs will fit right in.
* fix quickpet for spup
* integrate with olpc work
Extra pets

PPM for spup is working BUT not all packages are compiled for this version

Other notes.

nouveau is back, seems to be better now, at least for me, getting HW acceleration. If it doesn't work for you try nv in xorgwizard and report issues please.
Radeon later model users may have to boot with 'modeset=0' on the kernel line.
To unload nouveau
*boot pfix=nox
*edit xorg.conf in mp (at console)

Important note
If you compile/make pets for this version I would like to stick with a naming convention
*a normal script name-versionnumber (hyphen delimited)
*compiled app name-versionnumber-arch (like new2dir does.. please separate DOC,DEV,NLS)
*driver name-`uname -r`-versionnumber
Please, no hyphens in the name, use underscores.
Please post pet.specs if possible.
Optionally you can append "-spup" to the version number, this is recommended. Also, please compile i486, unless the app requires i686 then that's ok, some multimedia apps.

eg: seamonkey-2.1b2-i486-spup

Have fun

***Disclaimer.. I didn't make the first boot image! (though I used it! Looks nice tho, sorry Pat, but we are pre-alpha, this is NOT official)Last edited by 01micko on Fri 27 May 2011, 01:20; edited 11 times in total

canon MP490, but I didn't try too hard and I have a number of pets, maybe a different one would work but the one I tried worked in spup100, maybe a libusb thing._________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

Download it now, when it comes to the naming/posting the pet.specs for compiled packages, Is a pain, I never get it right, lol And things like posting the pet.specs, well that's no bad for single files, but If I'm compiling an app that takes like 6 deps, Thats a very big pain to compile and stop post the spec, then compile again and post the spec, etc etc etc etc. I'll give it a try.

On another note, will this turn into puppy 6?

Also I haven't booted with it yet but are you open to a few substitutions if this has the deps needed? like ditch Epdf for Evince since its 10 times better at rendering and renders a lot of extra formats, like SVG,comic etc, really would only work if gconf is included in spup, I guess I'll find out in a min from now
ttuuxxx_________________http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games

peebee, there is definitely a timezone bug, investigating, will look into fsynclient

Lobster, can you run the command in the first post on your radeon? Any puppy will give the same result.

ttuuxxx , the pet.specs isn't as important as the naming You can append "-spup" to the version too if you like, would help some users I guess. I don't know if this will even go official, don't care so I can't say if it will be 5, 5.3, 6 or whatever... oh and tuuxxx, I'm open to suggestions, all depends on size and functionality, you know, bang 4 byte _________________Puppy Linux Blog - contact me for access

I don't see gconf, hmmmm A lot of gtk apps these day use Gconf and it should really be a part of puppy, things like Gcalctool which is a way better calculator than Galculator, Evince, Metacity, etc etc.
I'll compile some basics and see what you think. Personally I would included it.

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